Great Basin National Incident Management One Team Public Information Officer Wayne Patterson checks out the trailhead below burned cliffs from the Grizzly Creek Fire near Hanging Lake in Glenwood Canyon on Aug. 17, 2020 near Glenwood Springs. 129 Climate change hit home in Colorado this week, exacerbating multiple environmental calamities: wildfires burning across 135,423 acres, stream flows shrinking to where state officials urged limits on fishing, drought wilting crops, and record temperatures baking heat-absorbing cities. This is what scientists, for decades, have been warning would happen. Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday lamented “the hot and dry conditions” and called smoke impacts from the state’s four major wildfires “profound,” noting “poor air quality often can cause COVID-type symptoms.” He banned campfires and fireworks statewide for a month. “The hot, dry weather is making fire behavior extreme, and the rapid spread is already taxing our resources to fight fires,” the governor […]